I had pulled up a real-time lightning map during the countdown after being made aware that there was lightning visible. Turns out the closest during the last 30 minutes of the countdown was about 100km away.

I'm guessing that Crytek will go nuts on the discovery list. CIG will object. The judge will rule on that. Then we'll see a settlement after they lose out of the fishing expedition they have been wanting to go on.

If I recall properly, the docking terminal on the ISS has the ability to abort the process if anything looks off. That's a much shorter control loop then having GC involved. I would also assume for DM-1 there are many more hold and evaluate points on the approach then will be going forward.

This one is confusing me as well... I keep fining things both saying the unamended claims that were not dismissed both continue and don't continue.

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Either way the next thing published should be from the Judge either dismissing the case or setting up a scheduling conference. The speed at which this has been moving I'd guess we'll see something right around the end of the month.

If I follow correctly (no background in law here) the choice not to file negates any need for CIG to file a response and the next update will be from the judge. I'm still not sure (I've seen conflicting information) if claims from the FAC not dismissed and not even discussed in the SAC remain. If so there are a few difficult to prove any damages on copyright claims. If that is the case the next expected occurrence would be a scheduling conference to set up the next phase of the case.

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We'll probably see some action on the fishing expedition that is the discovery request from CryTek before actually addressing the claims.

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I'm a little surprised that they didn't just withdraw the case, continuing this way not only increases their own fees but the fees spent by CIG when the get a fee award after CryTek finishes losing this case.

I know a lot of the new flight system deals with setting limits on velocity and acceleration. I don't know if there is already significant changes to the landing system or not. The other one I miss is the HUD image showing your location above the landing pad, some of the ships are very tricky to know how well aligned you are.

I remembered there were a few things but I hadn’t had time to look through the different documents and see what claims were still around. I believe the Bug Hunters code claim, and if they pulled the Cry Engine logo before all the code was replaced were about it.

Not any time soon, likely never due to the fact it would need a heat shield and for some launch profiles, such as direct to geostationary, will remain in orbit longer than the batteries would last. This would mean adding solar panels. So The trade off of it being relatively low cost (smaller and only 1 engine) and how much complexity it will need to gain to land. I don't recall but they may have given up on that about the same time they stopped looking at Dragon propulsive landing.